browse by city
Brooklyn, NY (787)
New York, NY (779)
Toronto, ON (745)
Montreal, QC (397)
London, UK (297)
complete city list
popular articles
Da Champ
from: Peter
Brooklyn Hospital Incinerator
from: Peter
Pretty Parking
from: joey
Why They've Got Us All Wrong
from: Repine Online
what's hot this month?
recent articles
Why They've Got Us All Wrong
from: Repine Online
Brooklyn Hospital Incinerator
from: Peter
Pretty Parking
from: joey
Da Champ
from: Peter
Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Facility
from: Peter
Moscow City
from: Makzer
Lofts for Rent
from: Peter
Escape From New York
from: Peter
Emptiness
from: joey
Painting on Knickerbocker
from: Peter
read all today's articles
browse by author
Peter (806)
joey (281)
EvilGentleman (269)
hool (247)
jack (235)
complete author list
hot topics
graffiti
Justo Gallego
JA One
sane smith
graf trux
wheat paste
nyc
sixy
Top 10 largest cities in canada
harlem
banksy
new york
brooklyn
nyc graffiti
dr. sex
Fuck the IGA
Montreal, QC - CE - Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 : goo
[previous] :: [next]
Many people in the traditionally working class neighbourhood of Saint-Henri are unhappy with the closure of the small IGA grocery store in favour of the new supermarket style IGA designed to cater to the new, richer, condo buying residents.
Saint-Henri, Le Sud-Ouest, Montreal
This article has been viewed 3793 times in the last 45 months
iman: POWER TO THE POOR! HELL YEAH!
EvilGentleman: 11th Apr 2007 - 01:00 GMT
Is this the one at the corner of Place St-Henri and Notre-Dame?
Frank S. Besner: 11th Apr 2007 - 02:11 GMT
I was just at the IGA on Charlevoix, tonight and boy can I vouch for your statement, CE. Prices at these chains are through the roof! I especially love how they compulsively try to con the economy conscious shopper with sales that arent really sales at all. I'm sure you've all done this at some point: lift the little "On Sale" card... At least 1 time out of ten, you're mortified, finding out that either A) there's no discount or B) you're getting screwed, the list price is a whole 10 cents cheaper. This place still beats any grocery store I used to shop at in the Plateau, though...
CE: 12th Apr 2007 - 17:16 GMT
If you go to the one on Notre-Dame in Saint-Henri, there are murals painted on the walls above the shelves. One is a typical picture of the store but the other is of the canal with the new condos in the background. You can't possibly say that the store isn't built for the rich people moving into the condos. Even the decor (which is very upscale) of the store suggests it.
VL: 6th May 2007 - 11:29 GMT
So, that's why. I have just been to that store in St Henri yesterday, and thought that it looked a bit empty for that time of the day (10 customers on a Sunday late afternoon?). Not to mention, I noticed they had piles and piles of fresh groceries rotting away there. It might be a bit early to say, but if they don't start catering their prices to suit the people in that area, I suspect they might go out of business soon.
Rayny: 8th Aug 2007 - 18:11 GMT
Yes, and they are a bunch of assholes at the new store too! I want to punch to manager in the face.
anon (ip-164.39.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net): 12th Aug 2007 - 16:48 GMT
Yes the new IGA is more expensive. There is more variety though. I moved to NDG in '04, and have to say Esposito is more expensive and very limited, not to mention the rent is double! I've regreted the move ever since. If you live in St Henri just be thankful for small mercies.
nancy: 11th Mar 2008 - 00:13 GMT
that old space is still empty...we need a cheap little fruiterie there...the prices at that IGA really are astronomical!! Its also really disorganized...and their organic section sucks..notice too, that anything that is on sale all sugary crap with no nutritional value what so ever...gets you high but leaves you hungry
Ken Maki: 13th Apr 2008 - 14:32 GMT
I agree the owner of the IGA on Charlevoix Pat Tofetta is an ignorant money grabbing PRICK! I say Fuck You IGA!.
Shop at the Maxi on Wellington they treat you like a human being.
I hope the IGA goes out of business.
Mike: 30th Jul 2008 - 12:45 GMT
Indeed, I used to shop at the IGA, while it was further west on N-Dame st., near parc Sir G-É. Cartier. I can still remember people stocking up on on chicken legs, milk, canned juices, beer, bananas and peanut butter, the bread was also cheaper. The produce wasn't any nicer though and they rarely label there place of origin. The staff at the new store is pretty much the same, so I don't see anything worthwhile complaining on that front. Though people definetly are walking the extra 5 minutes to get their goods at the Super C on Atwater. This is all true! But if you wanna complain about being poor, go and buy a huge 10 lb. bag of rice, buy goods when in season, eat potatoes in winter and make yerself stuff to freeze for over winter. I dead serious about walking in to grocery stores on the first of the month only to fing the bread isle has been cleaned out. The problem just may be that your buying expensive crap to go on your bread, and buying KD because you've got milk and margarine. We're made to be slaves. Hell it costs less to buy those pastas with niacine and additives than it does the pure semolina flower kinds. Maybe time we wake up!!! Oh, and if you think mighty IGA is closing it's doors when the city of montreal is about to fund redevelopment in the area through decontamination incentives, etc. you've got an other thing coming!! You can thank the cunts that buy out to useless/dreamy/utopic endevors like working for the film industry, media, plastics or workers who accept to work with cancerous materials in once honarable fields such as construction. Get in charge of your life!
Comment on this article..
[previous] :: [next]
search citynoise.org
recent discussions
Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle:
from: Peter
Metro Cope2
from: METRO KD OTB DMC
Graf Utz in Manhattan
from: jack
Ben's Deli
from: EvilGentleman
The Freedom Tunnel
from: Peter
Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE
from: art views
Feeling Sixy?
from: Peter
Pretty Parking
from: joey
House of Pain
from: Peter
Newtown Creek
from: Catherine Penfold-Waxman
from the archives
Skylight
This is the skylight from my old apartment in Hell's Kitchen. Whenever the weather turned to rain or snow, accompanied by brisk winds, tiny bits of the rain/snow would be blown into the house through the inverted cap-vent at the...
recently viewed
Fuck the IGA
from: CE
PB & Cheney
from: GGP
Brooklyn Bridge
from: Chris Fuerth
Moon Spotting
from: joey
Kimchi? Sushi? Slush Puppy? Fill'er Up!
from: GGP
Life Sentence
from: NWhyC
The Party Is Over
from: serlingrod
It's Been Getting Cold
from: David
Forrest
from: Rune Willem
Two Factories
from: CE
concept and content © citynoise.org 2002 - 2008 : designed and maintained by
Jamie Thompson and
peter (rhodamine.org)
caveat: entries and comments on citynoise.org represent
the views of their respective authors; this is an open forum, open to
all relevant ideas,
and as such, sees minimal editorial interference. as such, all content
on this site remains property of its creator/author, and is therefore
protected by all applicable copyright laws.
